Sherlock in Shanghai Stories of Crime and Detection by Cheng Xiaoqing

Name: Sherlock in Shanghai Stories of Crime and Detection by Cheng Xiaoqing
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ISBN: 9780824830991

ISBN-10: 0824830997

ISBN-13: 9780824830991

Edition: 2007

Authors: Xiaoqing Cheng, Timothy C. Wong

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Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s--"the Paris of the Orient"--was both a glittering metropolis and a shadowy world of crime and social injustice. It was also home to Huo Sang and Bao Lang, fictional Chinese counterparts to Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The duo lived in a spacious apartment on Aiwen Road, where Huo Sang played the violin and smoked Golden Dragon cigarettes as he mulled over his cases. Cheng Xiaoqing (1893-1976), "The Grand Master" of twentieth-century Chinese detective fiction, had first encountered Conan Doyle's highly popular stories as an adolescent. In the ensuing years he played a major role in rendering them first into classical and later into…

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List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Publication date: 10/31/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 5.80" wide x 8.20" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English